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Proof of Support. In Ottawa, Canadian Premier Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who as the national Liberal leader abided by Canadian custom and did not get involved in the provincial politicking, hailed the vote as "a victory for Canada -proof without any doubt that Quebec people overwhelmingly support federalism." It was also a victory for Quebec's Liberal Leader Robert Bourassa, who at 36 will become the youngest Premier in Quebec's history. A lanky professor of economics and fiscal law, Bourassa, who took over the provincial party leadership only last January, campaigned on a platform of "making federalism work...
...weeks ago, as the U.S. supertanker Manhattan was heading north on its second experimental Arctic voyage, Trudeau responded to Canadian concern over possible future oil pollution by extending Ottawa's jurisdiction to 100 miles northward from its shores. The measure, in effect, establishes Canadian control over shipping through the Northwest Passage. Some Canadians wanted him to assert full-fledged sovereignty over the waters rather than mere jurisdiction, but Trudeau characteristically chose the more reasonable course. "This pollution legislation," he said, "is not jingoist. It is not anti-American." Nonetheless, Washington last week sent a strong protest to Ottawa...
...hunt came to an end last week, however, the pictures showed the same old gory sights of white-coated pups being battered to death on blood-spattered ice. Why were the seals - and Canada - getting clobbered again? As it turned out, Ottawa had simply delayed the hunt, hoping that the week-old white pups would have matured to ordinary, uninteresting brown mammals by the time it began. Unexpectedly, however, mother seals whelped several weeks late this year, and many of their pups were at their familiar photogenic peak when the hunt began. The result was another field day for Canada...
...rivers. In the past few years, Canadian and U.S. companies have also begun manufacturing smaller air-cushion vehicles and have sold several hundred to private buyers at prices between $3,500 and $4,000. Now a Canadian firm has raised the specter of a noisy Hovercraft in every garage. Ottawa's MHV Ltd. will soon begin to mass-produce two-passenger models that ski along as fast as 60 m.p.h. and cost less than a Volkswagen...
...leaders. The city's police were particularly angry because their Toronto counterparts receive more pay for less dangerous work. When the city offered the police an increase that still left them $800 short of Toronto's basic $9,200-a-year scale, the cops struck. As an Ottawa official put it: "The people who had been kicking them and stoning them and bashing them over the head weren't paying them enough...